Callicarpa.'] cxi. VERBENACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 567 



3-5-lobed mature nearly glabrate, cymes dense stellately tomentose shorter 

 than the petiole. Callicarpa sp. n. 27, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. 8f T. 



ALPINE N.E. NEPAL ; Yalloong, alt. 10-11,000 ft., J. D. H. 



A deciduous tree, 16 ft. ; branches thick, stellately tomentose, crowded with leaves 

 at the tips. Leaves 12-15 in. diam., palmately 5-7-nerved, membranous; lobes ovate, 

 acuminate, denticulate, stellately hairy on both surfaces when young, mature with 

 some stellate hair along the nerves beneath ; hairs stalked, often with 2 whorls of 

 secondary hairs ; glands scattered ; petiole 4-8 in. Peduncles 2| in., often 2 super- 

 posed in each opposite axil ; leaves fallen from the flower-bearing axils in the speci- 

 mens ; cymes 2-4 in. diam., resembling those of C. arborea. Calyx 3 ' 6 in., funnel- 

 shaped, subtruncate, stellately hairy. Corolla | in., tubular, nearly glabrous in 

 flower ; lobes 4, short, ovate. Stamens 4. Fruit not seen. 



2. C. arborea,, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 10, and Fl. Ind. i. 390 ; arboreous, 

 leaves ovate to narrowly oblong acute entire or nearly so closely tomentose 

 beneath, peduncles as long as the petioles closely tomentose, fruit purple 

 ultimately black. Wall. Cat. 1826, chiefly; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 641 ; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 368; Kurz For. FL ii/274. C. tec ton aefolia, Wall. Cat. 

 1827. C. villosa, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 1. c. C. farinosa, Roxb. mss. 



N. INDIA, in the lower hills, alt. 0-4000 ft., from Kurnaon to Assam, common in 

 the Sikkim Terai; Bajmahl. E. PENINSULA, from the Khasia Terai and Muneypoor 

 to Singapore.- DISTBIB. Ava, Sumatra. 



A tree, often 40 ft., with a thick trunk and round head. Leaves usually 6-8 in., 

 base rhomboid, leathery, mature glabrate above ; stellate hairs beneath very close, 

 sessile, persistent, covering the numerous glands ; petiole 1-2 in. Calyx <% in., sub- 

 truncate, stellately pubescent. Corolla | in., puberulous, lavender or pale purple. 

 Berry -^ in. diam. Generally to be recognized by the entire leaves with very close 

 persistent hard tomentum beneath ; but the leaves are toothed in Khasian examples 

 collected at Nunklow, and the tomentum is spreading and very woolly on some from 

 the Malay Peninsula. Leaves usually cuneate at base, but rounded in the form C. 

 villosa, Koxb. C. villosa, Vahl, is a doubtfully Indian plant. 



3. C. vestita, Wall. ms. ; arboreous, leaves ovate acute subentire 

 silkily white-tomentose "beneath, peduncles as long as the petioles stellately 

 tomentose. C. lanata, G-amble Darjeeling List 60, not of Linn. 0. arborea, 



Wall. Cat. 1826, partly. Callicarpa sp. n. 3 & 4, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sf T. 



NEPAL ; Noakote, Wallich. SIKKIM, alt. 1-4000 ft., in the outer valleys and 

 Terai, frequent ; Herb. Griffith, J. D. R. (Kew Distrib. n. 6042), &c. 



A tree, 30 ft. ; resembling C. arborea. Leaves 4-10 in., base rounded or cuneate ; 

 tomentum beneath of stellate hairs having the secondary hairs fine, long and white. 

 Inflorescence stellately white or tawny tomentose. Calyx at flower-time nearly 

 glabrous. Otherwise resembling C. arborea. 



4. C. lanata, Linn. Mant. 331, not of Schauer, nor of Griff". ; arboreous, 

 leaves ovate or ovate -lanceolate subentire stellately tomentose beneath, 

 peduncles shorter than the petioles furred. Void Symb. iii. 13 ; Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. i. 391; Ham. in Trans. Linn. xvii. 251 ; Wall. Cat. 1831 ; Grah. Cat. 

 PL Bomb. 156 ; Brand. For. Fl. 368 ; Bedd. For. Man. 173, and Anal. PL 

 21, fig. 6. C. Tomex, Poir. Suppl. ii. 32. C. cana, Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. 

 FL 200, not of Linn. C. Wallichiana, Walp. Rep. iv. 125; Schauer in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 641 ; Wight III. t. 173 b, fig. 5, and Ic. t. 1480. C. arborea, Miq. 

 in PL Hohenack. n. 152, not of Roxb. Tomex tomentosa, Linn. FL Zeyl. 

 24. Cornutia corymbosa, Lamk. Diet. i. 54. 



Throughout the DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON, common; ascending to 

 4000 ft. 



A tree, 20-40 ft.; tips of branches cinnamoueous, shaggy and woolly. Leaves 



